LETTER HOME: ALLOW ME TO NARRATE MY TRAVELS THIS WEEK THROUGH A SELECTION OF FINE PHOTOGRAPHY
Dear Friends and Family,
It’s been a week of big transits. I left Horizon Peru, my host for the month of March, on Wednesday. And as the bus pulled out of Trujillo, I had tears in my eyes. This was an important measure of the meaningfulness of my four-week experience. Sitting on that bus, there were realizations of gratitude and injustice and freedom and privilege. But this letter home is not going to dissect the complexities of social and economic inequity.You have to wait for my memoir for that.
Instead, allow me to share my transitions from Trujillo to Buenos Aires through these captivating narrated photographs.
Much love, Daniel
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do you have travel insurance? you should get some if not! get that ipod paid for!
I could not have loved this more!! Bravo for a truly great travel photo post.
awesome pics/letter home. u got some talent daniel
your writings always make me laugh and reflect…awesome..xo
You may be interested to know that the “barren but beautiful” photo is now my desktop background. Your blog reminds me how grateful I should be for the amazing things I’m experiencing and places I’m seeing. Thank you for that. :)
So happy I found this through Kirsten! Loooooved this!!! It was SO original and of course I’m just a bit biased because you’re in my favorite part of the world. :)
The pictures of Lima surprised me… I wasn’t expecting it to be so colourful and appealing. The bridge of sighs looks so picturesque (sigh!). But I’m left wondering how the bike tour navigated Peruvian traffic?
What a kick! I so enjoyed your text & photo combinations… Fuel for the imagination, for sure. We’re arriving in Peru in January, and I’m looking forward to collecting some stories of our own.
Sucks about the iPod. :(
Curious about Mary Ann’s travel insurance note – we haven’t purchased ours yet. I wonder what the deductible/rate details would be…
Thanks for the peek into your world! Cheers~
i’ve been musing on ways to associate words with photos in an adventure diary to tell a story without breaking the beauty within each constituent part of the vehicles of storytelling (words/photos) – fusing a consistent link between them has been a struggle.
These are some of the best examples i’ve seen for fusing the two, laying the text straight there ontop of the images. Simple and effective, a bit of a eureka moment for me really – spurred some thoughts.
Enjoyed reading your story too – thanks for sharing.
Hey Luke.
I’m glad my shoddy photoshop skills are an inspiration to you.
Your photo work is, like, lightyears ahead of mine.
So kudos n’ stuff.
oh thanks, very kind of you!
your whole trip- both your philosophy for travelling and your methods for ongoing documentation of your world whirl is an inspiration to me man.
So thanks (again), and all the best with writing the book, looking forward to seeing more from it, and the final product –
like I mentioned, I’m on a similar trip myself, trying to tell sentimental travel narratives, but with a blend of photos and writing, I’ll have a first attempt wrapped and ready to show in the next two weeks if all goes to plan-. If it’s not too forward of me, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it when I’m finished? I very much doubt that you’re ever short of kids in montreal to blether with on the topic, but if you’re ever in need of a fresh conspirator to riff ideas with, I’m very open to getting a gabble on the subject any time too.
peace.
I’m happy to conspire. Email me.
dannyboy [at] danielbaylis [dot] ca
Amazing shots. I like the added text. How did you do that?